UN Chief Makes Surprise Visit to Israel in Effort to Calm Israeli-Palestinian Tensions
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made an unannounced visit to Israel on Tuesday. Photo: World Economic Forum.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon was to make an unannounced visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories Tuesday to try to calm nearly three weeks of violence, even as a new stabbing wounded a soldier.
Young Palestinians have defied an Israeli security crackdown and calls for non-violence from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to carry out repeated knife and other attacks on Jews.
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